An Exploratory Drug Trial For ME/CFS In the next month or so, Cortene, a small drug development company, will do a very unusual thing – trial a new drug in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The first two parts of the series on this new drug covered how ME/CFS...

Health Rising is proud to announce that the Solve ME/CFS Initiative (SMCI) has become a sponsor. No organization has played a bigger role in ME/CFS than the SMCI (formerly the CFIDS Association of America (CAA)). Indeed, it’s hard to imagine what the field would...

It’s always good to see an exercise test in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). It’s harder on the patients – kudos to them for participating in the study – but study after study has shown that exercise allows researchers to dig deeper into...

“Exercise encourages bone development, and lack of exercise means you’ll be more at risk of losing calcium from the bones and so developing osteoporosis….It also increases the risk of breaking a bone as a result of a fall.” NHS.UK...

We propose that chronic idiopathic spinal fluid pressure dysregulation underlies both FM and the clinical entity of symptomatic Tarvlov cysts, which both present as peripheral neurological disorders. The authors This is the third in a series of blogs providing...

Making Fatigue Real Fatigue is like the Rodney Dangerfield of symptoms – it just gets no respect. The problem is the poor descriptive power of the word. It readily describes the everyday, manageable fatigue that most of the population regularly feels. That...